Depending on technological advances in radiotherapy, the use of three-dimensional (3D) treatment planning in brachytherapy (BRT) applications has provided a great advantage in terms of efficacy of treatment in gynecological ...

Breast/chest wall (CW) and lymphatic irradiation for breast cancer is one of the most difficult techniques in radiotherapy. In this study, forward and inverse planing IMRT, hybrid IMRT plans were compared with the corresponding ...

This research was conducted as a descriptive study to determine the levels of impact of the sunlight on 65 years of age and older individuals, to find out how knowledgeable they were and how they behaved in protecting ...

In this study, the hypothesis put forward is analyzed in a theoretical framework by explaining the U.S. foreign policy based on the basic theories of international relations. In order to accurately analyze the decision-making ...

Primary health care services are the gate to health system as well as being the core of the whole system. Effective supply of primary health services reduces the burden of diseases and enables secondary and tertiary level ...

Migraine is suggested to belinked to cortical spreading depression (CSD), thus CSD is used to model migraine inexperimental animals. Migraine is frequently comorbid with depression and anxiety,two disorders that are ...

B7 ligands are the most critical costimulatory molecules that regulate T cell responses. Although these molecules are mainly expressed on professional antigen presenting cells, they may also be expressed on tumor cells. ...

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is an advanced method of three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy techniques. Patient-specific quality assurances are very important for IMRT technic. These assurances are often ...

The studies that have investigated the nature of the cells and
molecules responsible for the functional insufficiency of the tumor infiltrating T cells
usually on several components; however, the contribution of stromal ...

Migraine is an episodic neurological disorder that affects 10-20 % of general population. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is proposed as the mechanism of migraine aura and the downstream trigeminal activation as the ...

Apoptosis plays a crucial role in immune
homeostasis. The interaction between Fas and FasL, essential molecules in an
apoptosis pathway, play an important role in the termination of the immune response,
regulation of ...

ATRA and D3 are the active metabolites of vitamin A and D, respectively. In this study, HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells were progressed through different maturation stages with ATRA, D3, LPS, and IFN-γ. For the determination ...

The complex network of chemokines and chemokine receptors is regulated by atypical (decoy) chemokine receptors. Atypical chemokine receptors play role in the termination of inflammatory responses and CCRL2 is the newest ...

Gas station workers are at risk because of the chemicals in the fuel. The aim of this study is, to determine the chemical factors and related health problems faced by the gas station workers. Data of this descriptive study ...

This study was held by using the prosography method and is about the areas inwhich the French experts were employed in the modernisation period of Turkeybetween the years 1923 to 1976 and the contributions they had made. ...

The objectives
of this study were to determine the level of women’s knowledge on family planning,
the prevalence of family planning method use and to determine the related factors
among married women aged 15 to 49 years ...

This thesis investigates the effects of the agricultural policies implemented in the Democratic Party (DP) period on political, social, and economic life, covering the period from the 14th of May 1950 when the DP came to ...

During puberty in both sexes endogeneous estrogen has a biphasic effect on epiphyses where at low levels it leads to an increase in height and bone mass whereas with higher levels this leads to closure of the epiphyses. ...